If Jesse Watters has his way, you\u2019ll never have to hear about Fox News\u2019 The Five discussing the WNBA ever again.<\/p>\n
Talk about a win-win.<\/p>\n
During Wednesday\u2019s episode of the daily talk show, the panel discussed the latest chapter in the eye-rolling saga between former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom and the WNBA. Kanter has previously made headlines for claiming he should be allowed to play in the league as part of an anti-transgender athlete publicity stunt, even getting into a verbal altercation with a player before being removed from the arena. Earlier on Wednesday, Kanter said he received a letter from the league<\/a> stating he was ineligible to enter the draft and he would later get booted from the WNBA Finals after refusing a suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n While others on The Five panel tried to generate interest in this story, Watters couldn\u2019t muster it<\/a> and ended up giving away the game in his frustration.<\/p>\n \u201cWake me up when someone throws a sex toy back on the court,\u201d Watters<\/a> said. \u201cI hate the story. I hate the WNBA. I don\u2019t watch it. No one watches it. They average under a million viewers during the regular season, and it\u2019s boring. And the only time we talk about it is like, they fouled the white star too hard, or someone wore a T-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n Undeterred and confident he could fire up his fellow panelist, Greg Gutfeld brought up several Atlanta Dream players walking back to the locker room during the national anthem. Even then, Watters didn\u2019t bite.<\/p>\n \u201cOK, great,\u201d Watters said. \u201cNo one saw it because no one\u2019s watching. I don\u2019t want to push this story anymore! I want to leave this story alone! I am no longer talking about the WNBA. As of now, I boycott this segment. I will just cede my time to anybody but Greg.\u201d<\/p>\n Watters: I hate this story. I hate the WNBA. I don\u2019t watch it. The only time we talk about it is like they fouled the white star too hard or someone wore a t-shirt. I don\u2019t want to push this story anymore. https:\/\/t.co\/Xrv1gTv30T<\/p>\n \u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) October 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Watters has admitted he has no interest in pushing the WNBA narratives that so many of his conservative media counterparts have made a meal out of in recent years. Amid the outrage following Sophie Cunningham\u2019s comments<\/a> that kickstarted the WNBA transgender debate in August, the Fox News commentator tried to tap out<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is week three of The Five covering the WNBA, and I have to say, I\u2019m done,\u201d Watters said. \u201cI hate the WNBA. I don\u2019t mind women\u2019s basketball. My girls play basketball, but I don\u2019t want to cover women\u2019s basketball. I don\u2019t want to be a WNBA analyst. We get paid to have an opinion about everything. And this is something I don\u2019t care about.\u201d<\/p>\n We appreciate Watters\u2019 honesty in saying he doesn\u2019t want to talk about the WNBA, and his tacit admission that what happens around the league isn\u2019t something people like him really care about. However, he is wrong to say, \u201cNo one watches it.\u201d Regular-season ratings hit a 26-year high<\/a>, with many games drawing millions of viewers, and the WNBA Finals are also shattering records<\/a> even without Caitlin Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n On second thought, don\u2019t tell Watters any of that, because if he finds out people actually care about the WNBA, he might suddenly decide to talk about it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Jesse Watters has his way, you\u2019ll never have to hear about Fox News\u2019 The Five discussing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[11320,65684,99,83050,434],"class_list":["post-891494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-fox-news","tag-jesse-watters","tag-sports","tag-the-five","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}